The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01

straw: but . voica CONES from heaven,
,aying:
iCourags, poor boy, courage"
Covering up lis head from the beast.
ality, and stopp 'ng his ears from the
,ursing, he gets up better and better. He
washes his face clean Mt the public by.
irant With few pennies got at run.
ming errands, he gets better coat
Rough men, knowing that he comes from
, low street. say:
"Back with you. you little villain, to the
place you come from"
But that night the boy says: 'God help
me, I can not 20 back"
And quicker than ever mother low ct
the cry Of . child's pain. the Lord re-
spends from the heavens: "Courage, poor
boy, courage"
His bright face gets him . position.
After awhile he is second clerk. Years
pass on, and he is fist clerk. Years
pass on. The glory Of young manhood is
on him. He comes into the hem. He
goes on from one business success to
another. He has achieved great
fortune. He is the friend Of tho Church
OF God, the friend Of all good ipstitu.
tons, and one day he stands talking to
the Board of Trade, or to the Chamber Of
People say: "Do you know what that
isl Why, that is merchant prince, and
he was born on Elm street,
But God says in regard to him some
thing better than that.
These are they that came ont Of great tribu-
lation, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood Of the Lamb.
q. for some one to write the history Of
b. Y heroes and girl heroines who have
triumphed over want and starvation, and
filth and rags! Yea, the record has a..
ready been made-made by the hand OF
God; and when these shall come ut last
with songs and rejoicing, 1t will take
very broad banner to hold the names Of
all the battle-fie!ds on which they got the
victory.
Some years ago a roughly. clad, ragged
hoy came into my brothers Office in New
York and said:
"Mr. Talmage, lend me five dollars"
NV brother said: "Who are your
The boy replied: ~ am nobody. Lend
me five dollars"
"What do you want to do with five dol.
larsw
"Well," the boy replied. "my mother is
sick and poor, and want to go into the
newspaper business, and l shall get q
home for her, and I will paw you back"
My brother gave HIM five dollars, Of
course never expecting to see it again
but he said:
"When will you nav it'"
The boy said: II will pay 1t in six
months, SIR"
Time went BY, and one day lad came
into my brothers. Office, and said:
''There's your five dollars"
"What do you meant What five dol
larsr' inquir ed my brother.
'Don't you remember that boy came
in here six msnths ago and wanted tc
borrow five dollars to go into the news
pancr business!'
30. yes. / remember; are you the lad ?"
EYES," he replied, ~ have got along
nicely. 1 have got o nice home for nv
mother (she Is sick yeti, and am as
well clothed as you are, and there's your
five dollars"
O. was he not worth savingi Why,
that lad is worth fiftv such boys as have
seen moving in elegant Cir
cles, never put to any use for God or man.
Worth saving! I go farther than that,
and tell you they are not only worth saw.
ing. but they are being saved. One Of
these lads picked up from our streets,
sent West by . benevolent society, wrote
East, saying:
~ am getting along first rate. I am on
probation in the Methodist Church.
shall be entered as q member the first Of
next month. I now teach a Sunday.
school class OF eleven boys. I get along
first rate with il. This is splendid
country to make living in. II the boys
running around the streets with black.
ing box on their shoulder, or bundle Of
papers under their arms, only knew what
high old times we boys have out hero,
they wouldn't hesitate about coming
West. but come the first chance they got. :"
So some by one humane and Christian
visitation, and some by another, are being
rescued. In one reform school, through
which 1000 Of the little ones passed. I. ?S5
turned out well. In other words, only five
of the two thousand turned out badly.
There are thousands of them who,
through Christian societies, have been
transplanted to beautiful homes all over
this land, and there are many who,
through the rich grace OF our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown.
A little girl was found in the streets Of
Baltimore and taken into one Of the 70.
form societies, and thew said to her:
"What is your namer' She said: my
name is Mary"
"What Is your other nameF' She said :
II don't know"
So they took her into the reform society,
and as they did not know her last name
they always called her 'sMary Lost" since
she had been picked mp out Of the street.
But she grew on, and after awhile tho
Holy Spirit came to her heart and she
became Christian child, and she changed
her name; and when anybody asked her
what her name was she said:
SIT used to be Nary Lost, but now, since
I have become . Christian, it il Mary
Found"
For this vast multitude are We willing
to 20 forth from this mornings service
and see what we can do, employing all
the agencies have spoken of for
the rectidcation Of the poisoned
fountainss We live in beautiful
city. The lines have fallen to US in pleas
ant places, and we have . goodly her.
itsge; and any man who does not like q
comfortable and unreasonable man. But,
city is not its chief glory. There may b
fine houses and beautiful streets, and that
all be the garniture Of . sepulcher. Some
Of the most prosperous cities Of the world
have gone down. not one stone left upon
another. But q city may be in ruins
long before . tower has fallen, OF
column has crumbled, or q tomb
has been defaced. When in a city the
a.. - ia F,,l no16 Hn.vn -;
ties and inanim ate religion; when the
houses Of commerce are the abode Of
fraud and unholy trsilc; when the
streets ara filed with crime unarrested
and sin unenlightened and helplessness
unpitied-thst city Is in ruins, though
every church were st. Peters, and